I wanted to go to woodworks high school. My mum told me I'm too smart for such stupid school and sent me to study music and pedagogy instead.
I'm now a fucking music teacher, who's waiting for half a year when the cabinetmaker will finally make little cabinet in our bathroom, for which I will pay anything without questioning.
I'm not against school, but parents pressing their ambitions into their kids deserve a slap.
#children #school
You don't need woodworking school, just sign up to Paul Sellers woodworking masterclass.
Schools are overrated in today's age of instant access to any part of literature.
That's true. It's with music the same I guess. If you're interested and somewhat talented, which makes it easier, you will be a musician.
However I don't have a place to do it anyway. But I'll keep it in mind, getting a big empty garage would meant life for me. To cut off those piano playing fingers👀😆
If you lack space, maybe try and embrace traditional woodworking with only handtools.
Pro:
- 1/10th of the noise
- 1/100th of the cost
- bunch of skills to acquire but much more rewarding
- you'll only need a place for a bench and a wall to hang your tools (3 saws, 3-4 planes, 3-4 chisels, a mallet, couple of sharpening stones, a drill and some specialty small hand tools)
Cons
- workflow is slower, but if you're not doing for money, the process is the reward itself.
Ps. Check out n/woodworking here on nostr, I made a small community and it'd be cool to have more people contributing.
#woodworking
Interesting, thanks! I bought myself chisels some years ago, but hid them when kids were born. We live in an apartment, and given I started with sewing, knitting, crossstitch etc (2 machines and other stuff) and sometimes do massages for money (table, hot stones, chinese cups and other stuff) and music (piano, guitar, mic stand and other stuff), I'm pretty sure my husband would kill me if I brought in a saw.😂
That is awesome. Make your place yours!!!!
Damn 😂😂 yeah woodworking equipment doesn't rhyme with kids very well. There are people bringing their kids to their shops, but I wouldn't trust them one bit around a razor sharp chisel or plane 🤔
I constantly cut myself, can't imagine a kid 😅😂
There are little gloves, but you can't let a toddler around. My son is now 6 and I think we could start. I wanted to start soap carving with them both, but can't come up with chisely thing safe and yet effective enough.🤔
Goat mom! Everything is cool if it takes the kids away from screens.
I can't seem to find that community how does that work? I never joined any, and on Amethyst can't find it within communities.
Communities are still a nebulous features within Nostr. Aside for a few large groups, not many participate.
To be honest I'm not that active either 😅
Here's the link to the woodworking one.
yep.
if i had done what i wanted, my life would have been 'better'... i cant say that for sure but i am enjoying what i do now. i hated my corporate 'job'. it was life sucking misery.
I figured it out in the end, no thanks to pressure to do something i did not enjoy.
not every doctor or lawyer is suited to be one. and, we don't need more people with humanities degrees that just become bureaucrats.
I always remember our local doctors, a matried couple, eho pushed their son to go study medicine. My mum was his teacher in quite elite high school and told me he once came, a 17yo, and was crying and shaking in her office that he doesn't want to. Disgusted by surgeries and stuff. She told me he was into history and really good in conversation and critical thinking, he'd be amazing on this field.
He went to med school. 🤷♀️
my neighbour took a low end programming certificate from a college with open book tests.
i used to work in IT with email servers and security stuff.
i can't have a conversation with the neighbour about anything current in IT (i keep up to date by reading tech articles, etc. with little to no effort. Eg. i read the Bitcoin whitepaper) because the neighbour has no clue about anything in the IT world yet has a job in it.
It's mind boggling.
May I recommend the book 4 Agreements by Ruiz? We saw it in theatre, so I don't know how easily it actually reads. In a played monologue (the actor is known for his spirituality shift) it was hilarious, I remember most THE PAPER. THE HOLY PAPER. You must study for decades and you will get THE PAPER. Others will not receive THE PAPER and so you will be better because you have THE PAPER.🤌 #bookstr
I'll look for it. Sounds fabulous! Thanks
It's good. Talks pretty nicely about raising children too. I might check it out right away, it's somewhere in our bookcase.
i just saw what the 4 agreements are. it's enough. same page. always and forever and when I eff it up, i admit it.
It is 100% in line with Zen practice and its results and i suspect it't in line with stoicism.
Thanks again but moreso, thanks for the new follow (you). The best thing about Nostr is meeting others who 'get it' regardless of background. 🤙
So true!! 👀
